Entries from February 2009

February 28th, 2009 · Comments Off

We normally don’t post this late on Saturday, but we just got an email announcement that East River State Park is reopening tomorrow, a month earlier than planned. The release was entitled “”Spring hsa Sprung! Friends of the East River State Park Succeeds in Getting Park Open Again.” Here is what it says: With spring […]

February 28th, 2009 · Comments Off

Yes, friends, it’s cat and kitten adoption day today noon to five PM. The even, which is cosponsored by the Empty Cages Collective and NYC Pet Supplies is happening at 241 Bedford Avenue, between N. 3 and N. 4 Streets. You know what needs to be done. Go forth and do it. You can see […]

[Photo courtesy of Jack Szwergold/GL Flickr Pool] Devoted reader and contributor Jack Szwergold writes: “This is in front of a church that is right across the street from the sweatshop my mom worked in. My parents never really talked in detail about their workdays, but my dad mentioned a few times how my mom would […]

From the GL Inbox last week, this only goes to show how much neigbhoborhood activism it takes to get a some stop signs insgtalled. For real: A quick note with the text of the letter that has gone out from CB7 to NYC DOT. Great letter by our Dist. Manager. *I am hopeful our elected […]

[Click to enlarge] The GL readers who took this shot and emailed it it us writes that “the attached was hung tonite on second st and smith. Its a winner in the best flyer i have seen in a very long time seen category!” Indeed, it is. If you have it, give it up and […]

February 27th, 2009 · Comments Off

[Click to enlarge to full size] Brooklyn, meet Greenpoint Lodge. Lodge meet Brooklyn our out of town tourist friends. Now, go play. This is The Lodge ag 95 Norman Sreet, which has benn advertising on Craigslist and that we found via a commengt left on a New York Shitty Post about a failed condo turned […]

[Photo courtesy of New York Public Library Digital Collection] This Bernice Abbott photo is described as “Billboards and signs, Fulton Street between State street and Ashland place, Brooklyn. (October 29, 1936).”

February 27th, 2009 · Comments Off

Collina Italina will open on March 16 on Garfield Place and 6th Avenue bringing a touch of bellissimo to the Slope. According to their website: At Collina Italiana (CI), we offer Italian language and culture programs both on- and off-site. Lovers of Italian language and culture are finding that CI classes offer a unique opportunity […]

The Tempo Presto on Seventh Avenue in the Slope went early last year, eventually becoming the pretty succesful Barrio Restaurant. Well, adding to the growing amount of retail or restaurant space that is available on Fifth Avenue in the Slope is Tempo Presto’s take out branch. It first came up on Brookynian about a week […]

A month ago, Brownstoner reported the presence of a big porable steam generator outside the Novo Park Slope on Fourth Avenue. Well, a check yesterday, reveale that it is still there, leading one to conclude that there are big Boymelheat issues at work. We can’t wait to see the summer brings in terms of the […]

February 27th, 2009 · Comments Off

It just might work and it will certainly help people forget about things. In any case, this is the sign in the window of Bierkraft on Fifth Avenue in the Slope, which is a sort of a paradise for breakwki lover interested in a a part of the economy recovery President Obama failred to mention […]

We’ve also avoided the complex topic of using Federal economic recovery funds to bail out the financially sinking Atlantic Yards project. Local backers have been pulling out al the stops to lobby the governor for money and to us–who fully support a massive Federal spending plan to rescue the economy–putting money into Atlantic Yards would […]

February 27th, 2009 · Comments Off

We’ve been too diverted by other subjects–some of them stupid–to wade into Atlantic Yards recently, but it’s time. Yesterday, the State Appellate Court Ruled for the Empire State Development Corop on the Atlantic Yards Environmental Impact Statement Appeal. Oppenents will now ask the state Court of of Appeals to review the case. There is a […]

February 27th, 2009 · Comments Off

[Photo for GL courtesy of Meg Groome] Perhaps Coney Island can be the kind of pace where can chill out all year round. Our photographer writes of this group in front of the historic Child’s Buiding: “This group was basking in the sun and tucked in away from the winds.”

[Photo courtesy of Aonghais MacInness/GL Flickr Pool] The photographer writes that “Was walking though Ikea in Red Hook and saw lots of smoke in the distance. ” He lables the pic a “fire,” but it seems to have all the hallmarks of an incinerator, which release horrible amounts of sooty black smoke into the environnment.

February 26th, 2009 · Comments Off

As the possible Atlantic Yards site (also known as Propect Heights) is being demolished by Bruce Ratner, Guy Ambrosino is doing–or saying–something about it. (Bear in mind, however, his statement is more of the memory and the appreciation of communal statement than it is in protest and politics.) This Saturday (2/28) from 4-5pm Guy’s What […]

February 26th, 2009 · Comments Off

We found this announcement in a Park Slope Parents email for a new group that could be quite interesting in its own way: I’ve started a group called Brooklyn vs Burbs and Beyond, for people living in Brooklyn who are being priced or driven out of neighborhoods such as Park Slope in search of good, […]

February 26th, 2009 · Comments Off

There’s an important meeting tonight at 6:00 PM about the proposed rezoning of Gowanus that could seriously change the face of about 25 blocks of the neighborhood. The Community Board 6 Landmarks and Land Use Commmittee will be reviewing the city’s proposal. The meeting takes place at Long Island College Hospital, 339 Hicks Street (Conference […]

February 26th, 2009 · Comments Off

[Image via flickr] Before she moved to Brooklyn in 2007, Carrie Rodriguez was already singing about Brooklyn, or at least the Brooklyn Bridge. But perhaps we should start at the beginning. Carrie Rodriguez grew up in Austin, Texas, the daughter of a musician father and artist (and opera buff) mother. Classically trained as a violinist, […]